Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-06-08
DAKOTA NEWS.


--Bathgate's new city hall is completed.
--Spearfish has new hose company Of
twenty members.
b adle County has four strong Pres
byterian churches.
Douglas county is trembling on the
vortex Of county seat war.
Aberdeen is advertising for bids to
build 5000 feet of sidewalk.
WIN. Brown. of Hutton, Brown coun-
ty, has been adjudged insane.
"A Canadian lynx forty nine inches
long was killed in Cass county the other
day.
Hyde County has but one church
building, the Methodist church as High
more.
---Geo. w. Bartlett, city marshai of
Milbank, died suddenly from heart dis
ease.
Grading on the moor line between
Watertown and Lake Kampeska is in pro-
gress.
The elite of Parker are on star
theatrical tour with Esmeralda as its
specially.
The Fidelity Insurance company of
Huron is going to increase it's capital to
$250,00o.
Aberdeen will buy $4,000 worth of
property to present to the Aberdeen and
Bismarck for terminal facilities.
The towns on the Manitoba, between
Aberdeen and Campbell, are kicking be-
cause they have no mail service.
- One thousand three hundred cords of
Sioux Falls stone is being shipped to sur
rounding towns for building purposes.
There seems to be disposition in
nearly every part of the territory to SUBJ
init prohibition TO vote next November.
The financial credit of tho Territory is
claimed by the Sioux Falls Press to be bet
Ter than that of seventeen of the States.
Extensive preparations are being made
at De Smet for the Fourth 1t expects the
largest crow ever assemb' ed in Kingsbury
county.
A large portion of Territorial lands
held ty spectators are rapidly passing into
the hands Of settlers who will engage in
active farming and stock raising.
Clark Elliott, of Aberdeen, claims to
be the champion bicyclist of the Territory
by virtue OF having beaten Healey. OF Do
land, at the Aberdee tournament.
Capt. w. X. Smith, of Lisbon, is
making out detailed report of all small
arms in use by Battery A, preparatory to
turning them in exchange for cannon.
The two banks in Sturgis have been
consolidated into national bank with
capital Of $50,000, and the new bank ex-
poets to open its doors for business July 1.
While digging post holes just east OF
Pierre on the sight of the old Rec village
the other day, some workmen unearthed q
Rec copper breast plate at depth Of two
feet. a.s s.sz ssss
John wilkins, an emp'oye OF Mayor
Sutpin, in Oneata, got drunk and went to
sleep on the railroad track. He was o
single man and left no widow to mourn his
loss.
Valuable mines in the vicinity Of Gus
owners who are playing dog in the manger
The law provides no remedy for such out
RACES.
The contract for S., 500 three story
brick veneerei hotel at DeSmet, has been
awarded to Wilkin & Consnt, Of that place.
The building will be completed about the
1st of September.
"A little 2-year- old girl of Casper Zieg-
Ter, of Valley Springs, got hold Of a box
containing morphine pills and ate four OF
the pills, from the effects of which she died
few hours later.
Freight car thieves are giving the auth
critics and railroad men much trouble at
Bowdle. Rudolph Semp has been arrest
ed, bu. who was associated with him can
not he ascertained.
Sioux Falls has decided TO establish q
system of incondescent electric lights,
and in addition 10 supplying lights the
company will supply power to dynamo for
running light machinery. 1t. is expected
to have the system in operation by Sep
tember l.
"A. Davis, president Of the South Da-
kota Press association, is corresponding
with railroad officials for rates from Du-
luth to Chicago, with a view OF holding
the next meeting Of the association on q
Lake Superior steamer between Duluth
and Chicago.
Reed, the defaulting city treasurer OF
Bismarck, has been heard from, and he
says that every just claim which the city
may present will be settled in full. His
friends claim that his shortage was the re-
suit Of generosity ami kindness that sur
passed his income, and a carelessness
which, while inexcusable, is not dishon-
esty.
The Bismarck Tribune is responsible
for the following: "Colonel Catchon, the
memorial orator in a Dakota town, was
not making much headway in his attempt
to win applause. He had spoken Of the
men who had died that their country nigh,
live, and the audience gazed at him with q
vacant stare. He spoke Of the grandeur
of the American republic, and q man in
the audience muttered that he had read
that whom he went to school thirty years
ago. He took out his handkerchief and
wiped away n tear as he spoke Of the wild
ows and orphans, and dozen or two walk
ed out Of the hall, while those that re-
mained yawned and cast plying glances
at the struggling orator. At last one of his
sentences contained the words ''greal
North hwest," and there was general
Frightening of the audience and a slight
applause in the re ar of the hall. The or
ator had struck the key. II tell you, fell
low citizens" he shouted, 'all good citi-
zens were born in the ozone Of this great
imperial Dakota. Loud applause. "Why,
look at Us now with prospect of forty
hushela Of vheat Ia the acre TApnlnuse